WWW Form Bug Report: "setrlimit() -- too many processes" on BSDI (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

not acked



Message-Id: <19...@taz.hyperreal.com>
From: zollman@magicnet.net
To: apache-bugs%apache.org@organic.com
Date: Tue Jun 18  7:25:27 1996
Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "setrlimit() -- too many processes" on BSDI

Submitter: zollman@magicnet.net
Operating system: BSDI, version: 2.1
Version of Apache Used: 1.1b3 / 1.0.5
Extra Modules used: mod_auth_db
URL exhibiting problem: 

Symptoms:
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Whenever we pass 64 running servers, add'l 
servers can continue to fork (because the server
itself runs as root) but the children can't start
CGI programs -- like the huge imagemap on our
front page. Current workaround: Write a wrapper
program which changes the process limit upwards.
Somewhere you might want to put a check to see
if we're nearing the max process limit and notch
it upwards. It appears todo this with max
file handles... I didn't see it for processes.
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Backtrace:
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